»On spending lottery winnings

Everyone has a plan for what they will do when their ship comes in. A few years ago, while unhappily noting the number of jacked wheels, bent tubes, and looted remnants of bicycles chained to New York City -- artfully realised in John Glassie's book, Bicycles Locked to Poles -- I vowed that I would make whole each bicycle, and true each wheel, oil each chain, repair every broken cable.

But then something like this gives me pause: